At the moment I am weaving a scarf on my table loom. The yarn is a 3-ply worsted yarn which I bought a number of years ago in the Falkland Islands. It is naturally coloured pure wool and I could not resist buying some, even though I had to squeeze it into my hand luggage.
The weave structure is a simple 2/1 block twill. I only had three balls of yarn so I had to be careful in designing the pattern and the length of the scarf. The wool is beautifully soft.
The pattern draft shows three blocks of 12 picks.
For this scarf, I wove three blocks with a dark brown weft, three with a beige weft and then three with dark brown. The next pattern repeat is three blocks of white, then three of beige and then three of white.
On my Megado loom, I am weaving more tea towels. Before I go away on holiday, I always put a warp on the loom so that I can weave as soon as I get back home. Usually, I put on a complicated warp because it takes much longer to make the warp and thread it. However, I had been weaving tea towels to take with me as presents and I still had one design that I wanted to try. I have woven enough tea towels now. I always plan what I wish to weave next whilst I am weaving. I find weaving so relaxing.
The design is my interpretation of a set of tea towels I saw in a museum in Den Haag last summer. We had visited the Gemeente Museum to see the work of Gerrit Reitveld and the De Stijl movement. The architecture, art and furniture design were fascinating but there were also a few examples of textile design from the same period. The towels had a simple striped warp pattern of white,blue and red.
On my Swedish band loom I have just finished a set of self coloured bands. I will be showing you what I am using them for next month.
Susan J Foulkes
October 2014
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